Crescimento Limpo, Supportive Housing for Homeless

During the last year we have been planning, and building, and praying, and working, and dreaming, and preparing... for this day! We have finally inaugurated the CL Learning Center! On location at the Caféla (CL's café) we have opened a space for life skills classes, which have finally begun! 
To help our friends make effective changes towards independence, these classes will explore the root causes of homelessness and work to build skills and habits that assist our friends to create lasting stability. Yesterday our friends dove deep into a conversation about the "mental model" that exists within poverty, and they also mapped out the resources they have, both shared and individual, to strengthen their new way of life. The interaction was beautiful, and a strong confirmation that these classes will be well received by our friends in recovery! As we finished our students asked, 'Can we keep having these classes here?!'
We are only at the beginning of the development process of the Learning Center's curriculum, and we are thrilled with the opportunities that are at hand; both for further interactions with CL residents and increased involvement with community volunteers who have made themselves available to teach. We still lack some of the final elements (a printer, a screen for group presenting, a fridge and stove for culinary classes) but the space has already proved to be a wonderful resource towards supporting our friends in recovery! We are so so thankful to all of you who have helped to make this possible!

Links:

• Crescimento Limpo